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2017.
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
5) Kween
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"Soma Kear's verses have gone viral. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think her slam poetry video through. All she knew was that her rhymes were urgent. On fire. An expression of where she was, and that place...was a hot mess. Following her Ba's deportation back to Cambodia, everything's changed. Her Ma is away trying to help Ba adjust to his new life, and her older sister has taken charge with a new authoritarian tone. Meanwhile, Soma's trending video...
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"With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father's deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his...
7) Colossus
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Told through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Jamil Sunsin, this is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads to family separation and the elusive search for the American dream. It is an intimate portrait, a rare look into the aftermath of deportation and family separation, amidst the current backlash against America's immigrants.
8) Blue bayou
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
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Pub. Date
2014
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312 pages ; 23 cm
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Secrets kill, not just those you choose to keep from others, or even those that others guard from you. there remain those secrets that you so desperately keep hidden from yorself. they all catch up with Lempi Makinen Lahti. When Lempi's teenage son Danny discovers her suicide, he seeks to solve the mysteries that defined her life and death. A pack of letters and clippings hidden in an old family trunk may be the only key to understanding both his...
10) Indivisible
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2021.
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Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. Now Mateo must figure out who he is...
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2010
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202 p. ; 23 cm.
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As Sarah Burke and her crew of police detectives investigate an apparent murder-suicide in a well-known family of local merchants, their facade of diligent respectability explodes in a burst of violence that exposes long-concealed family secrets.
12) The grief keeper
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After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
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2020.
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...
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2023.
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235 pages ; 20 cm
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Un libro que acompaña a Me dicen Güero, libro de Honor del Premio Pura Belpré. "Puedes ser mi novio". Sólo se necesitan esas cuatro palabras para cambiar la vida de Güero al terminar séptimo grado. El verano se torna más ocupado a medida que aprende a equilibrar su tiempo entre las nuevas prácticas con su antiguo grupo, Los Bobbys, y ser el novio de Joanna Padilla. La llaman "fregona" porque es fuerte, siempre defiende a su familia...
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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The bilingual picture book Luca's Bridge / El puente de Luca, by Mariana Llanos with illustrations by Anna López Real, tells the emotional story of a boy coming to terms with his family's deportation from the United States to Mexico. A powerful meditation on home and identity at a time when our country sorely needs it.
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Pub. Date
c2009
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111 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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An award-winning author examines the history of American immigration--a critical topic in 21st century America--particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who were denied entrance into the States or detained for security reasons.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
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When Pablo Cruz made the decision to seek asylum in the United States with her children, she had no choice: violence from gangs, from crime, from spiraling chaos was making daily life hell. After a brutal journey Rosy and her two little boys arrived at the Arizona border. Almost immediately they were seized and forcibly separated by government officials under the Department of Homeland Security's new 'zero tolerance' policy. Here Pablo Cruz tells...
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[2020]
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vi, 249 pages ; 22 cm
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""Cuando Rosayra Pablo Cruz tomó la desgarradora decisión de buscar asilo en Estados Unidos con sus dos hijos, sabía que la travesía sería difícil, peligrosa y probablemente mortal. Pero la violencia rampante en Guatemala era insostenible; Rosy sab́a que su familia sólo sobreviviría si migraba al norte.T ras un peligroso viaje que los deja deshidratados, hambrientos y exhaustos, Rosy y sus hijos logran llegar a Arizona. Pero casi...
20) Hasta que alguien me escuche: una historia sobre las fronteras, la familia y la misión de una niña
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Spanish edition of the true story of Estela Juarez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the President, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation"--
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